# FUP ate my db

dg@dcs.st-and.ac.uk (dg@dcs.st-and.ac.uk)
Sat, 25 May 1996 15:09:20 PDT

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    >At 02:40 PM 5/25/96 PDT, dg@dcs.st-and.ac.uk wrote:
    >>I'd just like to point out a `small' bug in FUP... if you try and fileread()
    >>a directory, it just keeps reading, and reading, and reading, and locks the
    >>server up, and eventually runs out of memory and the server panics and dumps
    >>db:
    >
    >yeah I know, it also locks up if you try to read/write a file with ; or : in
    >it... you could make a wrapper in $bf_fileread() (and all the other ones
    >too) to check for that.

    I didn't know that one. I'll have to do some careful checks. I'm currently
    writing a whole set of wrappers (File Management Utility) to allow a
    (hopefully) safe API to FUP that can be allowed to general users. It appears I
    have some way to go.

    ...just did some checks. FUP appears to strip out : and ; most of the time.
    Sometimes I get Invalid Indirection (FUP says Error 0). What does this mean,
    anyway?

    (BTW, my db was fine once I searched through the scrollbacks. I *like* xterms.)

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